http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/ Switched Comments for Dial-Up Internet Users Still Don't Want Broadband, Study Says http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 3rd 2008 12:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 3rd 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/
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Cell phones and broadband are areas where other countries have implemented higher quality-solutions that end up being cheaper to customers. Once 3G is national, once DSL is everywhere, we're still caught looking backwards.

I think we have a national interest in higher quality information services and that the market forces are not sufficient. My vote is for regulation on this one.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 3rd 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/
Because broadband spanks dial-up.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 11:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 3rd 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 4th 2008 12:33AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 4th 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/Jul 4th 2008 4:09AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/03/broadband-availability-increasing-interest-waning-with-high-pri/
I love my DSL, sure sometimes it feels slow, but then that's partially my aging computers fault. When browsers suck up nearly 75 megs of Ram by themselves, connection's only as fast as your computer. I would never be without broadband. I'm a merchandiser and I need to send in my call reports online with pictures, and a 2meg picture takes a loooong time to send over a dial up connection versus a broadband line. Sure its more expensive than dial up, but you can actually USE IT, And its not monopolizing a phone line. When you factor in the cost of another phone line for your modem, and even a "bargain" provider, you're not that far away from even like 2megabit or higher broadband or cable internet. Not to mention that if you want to pay just a bit extra or if you've got a good ISP that gives you a nice modem, you can get wifi built right into your router/modem and with a fairly cheap wifi card on your computer or laptop, you don't even need to string a cable to the computer.

Dial up is good in a pinch, I'll admit that, but for my day to day, I'll take DSL any day.]]>Jul 4th 2008 9:18AM